Production of Sentence-Final Intonation Contours by Hearing-Impaired Children

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 441-455

  Allen, George D ^a,b   Arndorfer, Patricia M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

F0 production; Hearing impaired children; Intonation contours; Perceptual cues; Sentence final

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRED PERSONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0034166983     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4302.441     Document Type: Article

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